Improvement in carpets



c. A. READ.

CARPET.

No. 175,499. Patented March-28.18.76.

IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIMIEMIM" ATTORNEYS UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES A. READ, OF BRIDGEPORT, CONNECTICUT.

IMPROVEMENT IN CARPETS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 175,499, dated March28, 1876 application filed December 12, 1874.

.To all whom it may concern Be it .knoWn that I, CHARLES A. READ, ofBridgeport, in the county of Fairfield and State of Connecticut, haveinvented a new and valuable Improvement in Carpets; and I doherebyfdeclare that the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription of the construction and operation of the same, referencebeing had to the annexed drawing, making a part of this specification,and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon.

Figure l of the drawing is a representation of a plan view of a piece ofmy carpet. Fig. 2 is a sectional view of the same.

This invention has relation to fancy-colored ingrain carpets, wherein itis desired to throw into the weft a great variety of colors; and thenature of my invention consists in the employment, in the manufacture ofingrain carpets, ot' a weft-yarn which is variegated, using for suchyarn only one shuttle, and producing the figures by the Jacquardmovements of the warp, as will be hereinafter explained.

In the annexed drawings I have represented a pattern having a blackgroundwork; but any color or combination of colors may be selected forthe groundwork which will develop and render prominent the fancy colorsor figures which it is designed to produce.

The variegated weft-yarn is continuous that is to say, it is filled inby means ofa single shuttle, which may be thrown by pickers in the usualway of weaving in power-looms, or it may be thrown by hand. Thisweftyarn is parti-colored, and the colors may be blended one in another,so as to leave welldefinc'd colors alternating with shades of thecolors.

The colors and the arrangement of the colors in the weft-yarn arearbitrary, and they give a mottled appearance to the carpet, whichcannot be produced with any number of yarns which are not variegated.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

'1. The process of manufacturing a figured ingrain carpet hereindescribed, consisting in producing the figures by the Jacquardmovements, and in giving a mottled appearance by the employment of acontinuous variegated weft-yarn, the colors on which are arbitrarilylocated in any position, without care as to the position of the colorsof the parti-colored weft in the fabric, and the variegated yarn being.

carried by a single shuttle, substantially as described.

2. As a new article of manufacture, the figured ingrain carpet hereindescribed, mottled by a variegated Weft-yarn, the colors on which arearbitrarily locatedin any position, without care as to the position ofthe colors of the parti-colored weft in the fabric, substantially as setforth. I

In testimony that I claim the above I have hereunto subscribed my namein the presence of two witnesses.

CHARLES A. READ. Witnesses:

J. WILBUR PARROTT, CURTIS THOMPSON.

